Posted on 09/08/2025 10:00:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
France’s government collapsed today. No, it wasn’t because of the Blitzkrieg, but the nation is trying to get its fiscal house in order, which hasn’t been smooth in the French Parliament. The now-ousted French Prime Minister François Bayrou lost a no-confidence vote badly, forcing President Emanuel Macron to appoint yet another prime minister. This would be the fifth premier in less than two years. Bayrou wanted to cut the deficit, and that’s what did him in (via Financial Times):
French Prime Minister François Bayrou lost a confidence vote on Monday, bringing his government to an end after only nine months and piling pressure on President Emmanuel Macron to stem a spiraling political crisis.
Bayrou, a veteran centrist and Macron ally, risked his premiership by seeking parliamentary support for his deficit-cutting efforts, a €44bn package of tax hikes and spending cuts.
The confidence motion was defeated by 364 votes to 194 in the national assembly as opposition parties from across the spectrum united against him.
Bayrou ended his premiership on a defiant note, warning France’s debt problem would not disappear without action.
“You have the power to topple the government, but you don’t have the power to erase reality,” he told lawmakers before the vote.
Bayrou was expected to submit his official resignation to Macron on Tuesday.
His ousting is only the third time since the 1958 start of France’s fifth republic that a prime minister has been toppled by parliament.
Macron could resign, but that’s unlikely.
he didnt lose a no-confidence vote
he lost a confidence vote
“France’s debt problem would not disappear without action. “
Never mind the hordes of turd world illegal and legal immigrants on welfare.
Doesn’t the French government “collapse” on a regular basis? Why are they overdramatizing it?
I wouldn’t call it a ‘regular’ event....since 2000...it’s collapsed only 3 times (early Dec 2024, mid-Dec 2024, and early Sep 2025.
Current (ongoing) issue? The support for Macron’s 2026 budget plan, which aimed to address France’s escalating public debt through severe austerity measures.
These matters include: Cutting approximately €48 billion ($52 billion) in spending. Plus freezing welfare benefits and tax brackets at 2025 levels (no inflation adjustment).
And finally...eliminating two paid public holidays to reduce costs.
All of this...to avoid raising more taxation, and no one much (party-wise) agrees....at least from the left or center. They mostly lean toward higher taxation. Right and right-of-center would probably agree to budget cuts, but demand gov’t changes, deportation efforts, and gov’t control.
I smell a guillotine in their future
When are they going to sack Macron?
In the 80s and 90s this seemed to happen every other week. Doesn’t really mean much. Now it’s just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, as we await France’s Islamic takeover.
Macaroni and his Tranny “wife” stay. What an absurd system the French have. Of course.
Get rid of the illegals and Muslims would solve the issue.
The debt issue is actually bigger than the migrant issue....3.3 Trillion Euro (figure close to 4.5 trillion dollars), and at the stage now that banks might loan the money, but they want some clean-up stages put in place (that’s the real disaster awaiting Macron).
Right now in interest payments per year....France covers around 80-billion dollars per year...for the mess going on for the past decade. The belief going on now...new loans....new debt measures, and the interest will hit easily $100-billion in 2026.
Also some belief going on that the European Central Bank is holding up relief...wanting serious measures (like they did 15-odd years ago with Greece). Banking analysts are pretty shaken over this.
The French will never willingly give up their cushy subsidies.
The type of tax increase required...will dissolve some jobs this time around (something that Macron was trying to avoid).
Or they could stop subsidizing illegals and Muslims...
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